Times Select = Pigouvian tax?

Andrew Samwick offers the contrarian view on Times Select:

I thought TimesSelect was a wonderful thing. It imposed a $50 per year tax on a readership whose opinions were almost certain to be opposite of mine. I'm going to miss it.

Comments

liberalrob September 20, 2007 12:28 PM

Jerk.

That's all I have to say about that.

Earnest Iconoclast September 20, 2007 1:01 PM

LOL. I have to agree with Andrew.

EI

anony-mouse September 20, 2007 2:19 PM

liberalrob wrote: Jerk. That's all I have to say about that.

That's okay; Mark Twain probably wouldn't get along too well with you, either.

Thorley Winston September 20, 2007 2:41 PM

So a fee to access Marueen Dowd and Paul Krugman’s latest screed is really a tax on pollution?

I can see it.

Thorley Winston September 20, 2007 2:43 PM

Or maybe the title should be “Times Select = Lotter?”

With “lottery” of course being shorthand for “a tax on stupid people.”

Patrick R. Sullivan September 20, 2007 2:52 PM

It was kinda like an anti-Rip Van Winkle event. When Times Select put everyone to sleep Krugman was waxing nostalgic for the days of double digit inflation and street rioting, and when we awoke Krugman was pitching the same thing.

liberalrob September 21, 2007 1:34 AM

"That's okay; Mark Twain probably wouldn't get along too well with you, either."

Certainly not now that he's dead, while Andrew Samwick remains alive to snark away at me and mine.

It's probably the same feeling Megan gets towards the Sadly, No! guys.